Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when, dressed like a foreman, he is making off with some blueprints he needs. But this character, played in more than usually laid-back style by Donald Sutherland, disarms whatever suspicions she may have by falling in love with her. Even when one of her pictures appears on a billboard on the bank, it does nothing to set back the robbers...
...Austin is enjoying her moment at the top. "I don't think the full impact has hit me yet." she says. "With school starting, I haven't had a chance to think much about it." But her neighbors have. A billboard down the street from the Austins' white brick ranch house in Rolling Hills proclaims SECOND ANNUAL TRACY AUSTIN PRO-CELEBRITY TOURNAMENT. With a champion of 16 in residence, there should be many more to come...
...rest of the Great American Pasttime has moved into kingdoms of billboard-mania, architectural nausea, and modern-day dull. Perhaps the fact that this pair of ballparks also happen to be two of the oldest active structures in the major leagues may have something to do with their special characters. Nonethless, these baseball museums stand far above the rest when it comes to nostalgia and just a good old day at the ballgame...
...billboard across the street, outside the right field fence, challenges the "Cubbies" to "hit one out here," a 600-ft.-plus shot that would tax even the muscle of Chicago strongman Dave "Kong" Kingman...
...lengthy musical score, sung by Sheila's rock group. There are even moments when Heflin starts to look like Shelley Duvall. But this time Altman's idiosyncratic devices are not organic to his material; he slaps them clumsily onto the film, like aimless graffiti doodled on a billboard...